Posts Tagged "Philadelphia"

On Saturday, April 8, BPRC staff joined a group of Bloustein students and alumni in Philadelphia for a complete streets walking tour. The tour, hosted by Rutgers alumni and local planners, showcased recent successes and challenges with improving bicycle, pedestrian, and public space conditions in Center City. The group met and started the tour at the Porch at 30th Street,…read more →

Team VTC

NJ Safe Routes to School program

The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) is a national leader in the research and development of innovative transportation policy. The Center brings to bear the full array of resources of a major research university on transportation issues of regional and national significance.

Voorhees Transportation Center

Under the leadership of Director Robert Noland and Project Manager Stephanie E. DiPetrillo, VTC’s Transit-Oriented Development project researches development and redevelopment anchored around transit stations. The center also produces a nationally recognized newsletter on TOD issues, Transit-Friendly Development.

Transit-Oriented Development

New Jersey Safe Routes to School helps create a safer and more accessible walking and bicycling environment for children in New Jersey through education, training, and research. Safe Routes to School projects can involve physical improvements to the environment, as well as encouragement programs to help make walking and biking more appealing.